Musings is a beguiling mix of short stories, poetry and correspondence by the author Ian Knight's late wife Georgina, and biographical and explanatory material by the author himself. Georgina's short stories form the centrepiece of this collection. Informed by her work as a nurse within the hospice movement and by her interest in her family's history, her stories touch on bereavement, the afterlife, the effect of war on personal relationships, and how traumatic events in childhood can continue to shape us as adults, but also on the power of faith and love, stoicism and hope to console us in...
Musings is a beguiling mix of short stories, poetry and correspondence by the author Ian Knight's late wife Georgina, and biographical and explanatory...
The Zulu War of 1879 remains one of the best known British colonial wars and included two battles whose names reverberate through history. At Isandlwana the Zulus inflicted a crushing defeat on the British; the gallant British defence at Rorke's Drift followed and re-established British prestige. Yet as this book shows, there was more to the war than this. Six months of brutal fighting followed, until the Zulu kingdom was broken up, its king imprisoned and the whole structure of the Zulu state destroyed. Years of internecine strife followed, until the British finally annexed Zululand as a...
The Zulu War of 1879 remains one of the best known British colonial wars and included two battles whose names reverberate through history. At Isandlwa...
